Welcome Educators, Students and Community Members in the Philippines
I send you Global Greetings from San Diego. I am so pleased for the opportunity to share this wonderful celebration with you. Thank you for including me. It is a privilege and great personal honor to applaud the efforts of Ms. Janette Torral for her success in continuing to support CyberFair throughout the Philippines. And, a special hello coach Vincent Tabor and everyone from Saint Louis University Laboratory High School who are graduating this year. Congratulations on your Platinum winning project A Challenge to Change. Your project was the best of the best and your video Believe and Unite was very inspiring.
As president and co-founder of the Global SchoolNet Foundation, an organization dedicated to learning experiences that prepare students for the workforce and help them to become responsible and literate global citizens, I want to stress the utmost importance of international collaborative learning, for a safe and peaceful world.
It is vital to form a citizen diplomacy network that fosters education to leverage the substantial strengths and resources in local communities for the enhancement of peace and international relationships worldwide.
These ideas are not new. 50 years ago United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower said
"given a chance, people will make friends across, around, over and under all the natural and man-made barriers which separate them.
The purpose of programs, like CyberFair, is to inspire future scientists, technologists, and dreamers to harness the incredible power and promise of technology to solve the challenges that confront us at the dawn of the 21st Century.
CyberFair can do all of those things!
The founding theme of International Schools CyberFair is to "share and unite" - for students, their schools and their local communities to use the Internet to share resources, establish partnerships and work together to accomplish common goals.
At Global SchoolNet we believe that involving youth in educational outreach projects, can foster worldwide friendships and unite communities.
We want all children to learn the skills they need to succeed, both in the world of today and in all the tomorrows that follow.
We want safe and strong communities in which all citizens can live and learn together.
Students participating in International Schools CyberFair learn what it means to be part of a community... both locally and globally.
They act as "Student Ambassadors," working with local leaders, local artists, local business, and the rest of their community to show the world what is special about *their* place.
Students today face formidable, shared global priorities such as issues in poverty, population, depletion of resources and concern for the environment, increased inequalities, war and terrorism.
Global education is an approach to teaching and learning that develops, fosters and nurtures the knowledge, skills, and values students will need to work effectively and collaboratively across cultural and linguistic boundaries to meet such global challenges and to resolve shared global issues.
We believe that Global education that showcases the local community is global education at its best.
The theme for CyberFair 2011 is "Take Action and Unite!"
Youth are challenged to publish original research projects that focus on how the positive actions and contributions of their local citizens have the power to improve, preserve and unite their community.
In partnership with the World Future Society, youth are encouraged to also prepare for the future - by thinking about the possible future, the probable future, the preferable future and the preventable future.
It is to those depths that education must reach, because in this model lies the most promising path to common understanding.
Beyond all the arguments for global education in the interests of economic competitiveness - or national security -
the most compelling reason of all - is that it is the right thing to do!
We have an immense responsibility to collaborate as a human community, and education is pivotal in our endeavors to work together toward the survival of our species and the improvement of the planet that we share.
When you go out into the world and become tomorrow's business and community leaders... please remember to take a little bit of CyberFair with you and Take Action and Unite.
I hope to someday visit your city, Baguio which I learned from your project - is "The Cleanest and Greenest City.
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CyberFair 2011 - Take Action and Unite: Changing the World 5 Minutes a Day!by yvonnemariea27 views
hi Dr. Yvonne,
i'm a student participating in this year's cyberfair in the philippines.
can i ask a question?
is this website the winner of this year's cyberfair winner?
wakeupbagio(dot)info
because on the bottom it says 2010 not 2011
254kenneth 10 months ago